[BAUDOUIN (Alexandre)].

The Man of the World's Dictionary. Translated from the French.

London, J. Appleyard. 1824. Second English edition. Original drab boards rebacked (unlettered) in style. 8vo. pp. [170]. A collection of clever epigrams translated from the second, enlarged edition of Baudouin's "Dictionnaire des Gens du Monde" (1818). The work was first translated into English under the title "A New Dictionary for the Fashionable World" in 1820 by Longman. The definition of a bookseller is given as "a man who lives on the sense and wit of others; a speculator on the curiosity, but more frequently on the stupidity of the public. It may be said of an ignorant bookseller that he lives among his books like an eunuch in the middle of a seraglio." Corner torn with loss from the front free-endpaper, ownership signature of Austin Vernon.

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